Re: [exim] Exim4 not Obeying queue_only

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:52:17 -0400
Mike Bartmon <mbartmon@???> wrote:

> I am having a problem getting Exim4 to obey the following options:
>
> queue_only=true
> queue_run_max=0
[snip]
> As you can see, a queue run begins as soon as exim is started.
> Messages that are received are then authenticated and delivered as
> if queue_only were false and queue_run_max were greater than 0,

Setting queue_only does not stop either:

- queue runners being started

- messages that are on the queue being delivered by a queue runner that
is running for whatever reason

It just means that new messages will be queued rather than immediately
triggering a delivery process.

If you want stuff to stay on the queue, you will want to do one or more
of the following:

- stop queue runners being started either by Exim in daemon mode (e.g.
with the "-q5m" option, which you have) or externally (exim -q, e.g.
via cron)

- investigate the hold_domains option


Tim